Tesla accelerated the mass adoption of electric cars by at least a decade. Tesla’s workplace safety stats and their rate of progress are inextricably linked. If a 3x injury rate vs similar companies is cost of such progress, definitely worth it.
I strongly disagree with that argument.
A related argument with which I disagree is the one that people sometimes invoke to respond to accusations of exploited workers: arguing that the workers' lives were still generally elevated over what they would be, were the factory not there and exploiting them.
Could you elaborate on why you disagree with it?
Re: your 2nd point, nobody is forcing the workers to work at the factory. Try coming down from your ivory tower to touch grass sometime, might be good for you.
And "nobody is forcing this exploited person into that bad situation" is one of the other common arguments with which I disagree.
Why do you believe its impossible they could achieve just as much with fewer accidents?
Is it possible that God Emperor Musk has permitted some degree of negligence in his operation?
That is a VERY bold claim given that Tesla sedans only began sales 11 years ago.
> Tesla’s workplace safety stats and their rate of progress are inextricably linked. If a 3x injury rate vs similar companies is cost of such progress, definitely worth it.
That claim is even more bold. Other car companies are ramping up their electric assembly lines even faster than Tesla did in Germany with even less experience in electric car production. Shouldn't it follow that they should be maiming their workers at an incredible pace?
Is there any reason to believe that design and technology innovation is linked to a higher injury rate in serial production? Shouldn't TSMCs chip factories be veritable slaughterhouses with that logic?
put your money where your mouth is: go work there, taking the risk yourself, but it is at least unethical to talk about other people's health this way.
Put your money where your mouth is and buy no brand new clothes or electronics for the rest of your life.
The virtue signaling is really poisoning this decades.
Written from my second hand computer.
Put your money where your mouth is and throw out all your electronics, which are definitely not assembled by workers who on average make more than the median household income in the area they live (as Tesla factory workers do).
All you do is advocating for exploiting people in the name of profit by finding some bogus excuses.
Also you pay for a blue tick on Twitter. Yuck.
I guess Musk could walk down Holiwood Boulevard and kill someone without loosing a single fan at this point...